Show A Jf fraik cFrank crane as v K C fundamental NEED IS JU 10 IN I 1 the older I 1 grow the more I 1 bei 1 come convinced 0 of the validity of one of my earlier beliefs nan nai aly ly that the fundamental fundament ai need 0 this world Is kindness I 1 ever ne lie is thirsting for understanding st r sympathy tor for the re fres lift touch of a kindly heart I 1 the yearning may be covered cover ed up by a show of cleverness sophistry i or cynicism but sooner or later as amiel so beautifully dle scribes it just when one has succeeded in deadening feeling by work or amusement all of a sudden the heart solitary captive that it is sends a cry from its prison depths a cry which shakes to its foundations the ahola bole surrounding edifice it is the cry for sympathy andi and kindness lInd ness those who are lust just kindly kenoly have their pace in the world the other evening I 1 was reading th the e story of 0 those turbulent times of 0 charles 1 I in england out ont of the mass of picturesque self seekers an unknown it private soldier stands on out in my memory As the king was led out to his death a private soldier standing near the door said in pity god bless you sir an officer knocked knock e d him down no matter how alack the crimes crimea of the condemned man mail nor how I 1 just the decree that private soldier i ahomed a kindness of nature in the face ot of popular disapproval that raised him high above the ruck ot of ills ile surroundings surround lings I 1 have often wondered what his name was men alen of the kindly heart have included some ot of the greatest names of 0 history llis tory 6 leonardo da vinci the uni universal versal genius ot of italy was in the habit of 0 buying caged birds bards to have the pleasure of biving them their freed freedom opi pythagoras the noble minded greek teacher is said to have one day purchased from fishermen the fish in their nets in order to have the joy of freeing thena companionship for the unfortunate however humble bumble js is the mark of a supe superior fior soul kindness is tiie the core of character it is the power of the golden rule applied to the every day when Lincol ns mother wis was dying in her frontier cabin she put up her land hand on little abes head bead and told him always to be kind to his father and sister there is more than an accidental relationship between the character of the greatest mon man of our age and the tact fact that being kind was the only request of his dying mother even after that rain last night the weather is almost as h hot ot as it is in cuba have you ever been in cuba 91 no but ive seen post cards ot of it |